Etymology?:
probably a patronymic from an unused name @derived_from@ ʾāmar אָמַר ‘to say’ in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence
Roots:
אמר
ʾĕmōrī pr n loc gen
Amorite = "a sayer"
1) one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt
Mentioned in Genesis 14:13, 48:22, 14:7, 10:16, 15:16, 15:21 Exodus 13:5, 3:8, 3:17, 23:23, 33:2, 34:11 Numbers 21:29, 21:34, 21:21, 21:25, 13:29, 21:13, 21:26, 21:31, 21:32, 22:2, 32:33, 32:39 Deuteronomy 1:4, 1:27, 3:2, 1:7, 1:20, 7:1, 1:19, 20:17, 1:44, 2:24, 3:8, 3:9, 4:46, 4:47, 31:4 Joshua 24:15, 7:7, 13:21, 10:12, 10:6, 3:10, 9:1, 24:8, 24:11, 24:18, 2:10, 5:1, 9:10, 10:5, 11:3, 12:2, 12:8, 13:4, 13:10, 24:12 Judges 1:35, 10:11, 11:19, 6:10, 11:21, 11:23, 1:34, 1:36, 3:5, 10:8, 11:22 1 Samuel 7:14 2 Samuel 21:2 1 Kings 4:19, 21:26, 9:20 2 Kings 21:11 Ezekiel 16:3, 16:45 Amos 2:9, 2:10 Psalms 135:11, 136:19 Ezra 9:1 Nehemiah 9:8 1 Chronicles 1:14 2 Chronicles 8:7